Joe Dunn

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anything: A Simple Tool A practical post for this issue: a tool that I use repeatedly in my coaching work on communication. It’s simple and, apparently, endlessly useful. What Are We Talking About? When we talk about anything, we can see

What Is The Purpose of A Company? Corporations are conceptual devices that we have decided are so massively useful that we should  spend huge resources of time, energy and money to create, refine, and nurture them. And yet, as Yuval Noah Harari cheerfully points out in Sapiens, they are fictions,

For each of us, the immigrants to Silicon Valley, there was that first morning in California. An unfamiliar room, jetlag, some confusion about the time, how you’re going to get breakfast, how the day is going to go, what to wear. Questions. Underlying everything is a strong sense of

Your 2022 Review: Wakes, Ripples, Karma Everything we do, everything we say, creates some kind of effect, however small. At every moment we have the option to build stability, stir up chaos, to move towards some form of creation or dismantling. We move through the world leaving imprints of our

The Dangerous Attractions of Speed Driving an organization at speed can be a ton of fun (at least it was for me back in the day). It feels like progress, like we're doing something, working hard, making progress. It's also a terrific way to avoid the

Shaping Chaos Shaping Chaos is a newsletter based on issues and insights that have shown up recently during my work coaching startup founders and leaders in SF and worldwide. I hope it will provide some perspective into what others are going through, and what's worked in shaping chaos: